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Since my last entry, a lot has changed. Bin Laden has been reprimanded “Team America” style, Miley Cyrus has shamelessly become the new Madonna, and I have managed to obtain a Masters degree in Viticulture and Oenology. Thus making me to be a qualified Winemaker (Oenologist to some) and Viticulturist (that’s the grape growing), or…

If you’ve stumbled on this post hoping to read some erotic story, I am sorry to disappoint you. This post is about the awkwardness of spitting wine at wine tastings. Although there are a lot of parallels to the dilemma many couples are faced with behind closed bedroom doors (or for the more adventurous ones…

A month or so after entering the Trade, and the largest annual event was coming to town, The London Wine Fair. Now for those of you that have never been…..it’s Massive!! Tables full of bottles for as far as you can see, with wine from all over the globe. Many from new winemakers, whom are desperate…

You always learn form your mistakes, and I will definitely will never be making this one again. Onmy second ever shift, a customer saunted into the shop. He was middle aged man, oozing confidence and style. I turned round to find Samuel to get excited about selling a bottle of wine, and hopefully a fine one at…

My first day was somewhat tame after the comical events in leading up to it. I arrived at the store at 10 am, only to be greeted by a closed shop. After waiting outside in the drizzling rain for someone to let me in a little voice came from behind me: “Errr hello, are you…

To quote an advert “Good things come to those who wait.” Whoever came up with that advertising slogan must have had the patience of a lion. Weeks and weeks passed since the shenanigans that was my interview, and there hadn’t been a single murmur from my proposed employers. However the longer I waited, the more…

It has long been a passion of mine to work in the Wine trade and a few months ago, that dream never felt so far away. I was stuck in a nine to five job in London, working for a large “Professional Services” firm (and the only thing I was professional at was procrastinating.) Then,…